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Okay, I’m dropping the pretence that I can stick to any kind of regular schedule with these posts. But please do keep sending links to interesting debt-related stories to info@debtresistance.uk, tweet them @DebtResistUK or drop them on our Facebook page.

After missing another post I’ve decided to publish these debt news round-ups on an altogether more achievable two-weekly schedule instead of one per week. I’ll try to up the link-count to compensate. As always, please send any interesting debt stories to info@debtresistance.uk, tweet them @DebtResistUK or drop them on Facebook.

In 2015, Debt Resistance UK research using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) helped Channel 4 Dispatches produce the documentary: “How Councils Blow Your Millions” which looked at risky and potentially unlawful LOBO loans between banks and councils like the London Borough of Newham. Join Debt Resistance UK to watch excerpts from C4 Dispatches, and for a discussion on LOBO […]

Debt Resistance UK needs your help to investigate LOBO loans! Join us for a HackDay dedicated to gathering, analysing and making accessible data on how banks have been fleecing the public via toxic loans to Councils. So far we’ve uncovered that Councils in the UK have fallen prey to over £15bn of unfair loans from banks like […]

15M Barcelona and Nuit Debout participant Emma Avilés responds to Open letter from Occupy Wall Street to Nuit Debout: Nuit Debout, beware! A letter published on Paris-Luttes.info. June 10th 2016. This letter written by Marisa Holmes gives her account of the divisions and fractions focused around who controls the social media in Occupy Wall Street. […]

On Saturday, EU Finance Ministers announced they would not extend the Greek bailout that would have covered the payments to IMF due on Tuesday. This was in response to the Greek government’s decision to call a referendum on the bailout terms and give the people an opportunity to have a say in the austerity programme […]

Ranjan Kumaran explains how the ECB is giving more money to the banks, whilst it still expects Greece to repay its unjust debts. The ECB is currently bailing out European banks, through a new round of corporate QE. The backdoor bank bailout goes by the name of the Covered Bond and Asset Backed Security […]

By Steve Rushton In an ever-increasingly unequal world, 85 people are predicted to soon own the same wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion. There are a further 12 million people with assets $1million plus: they account for the global 1.5%. Around the world one billion people – 15% – are counted as being […]

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